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Background: Hormonal disturbances play a role in the development of obesity, but may be a consequence of obesity itself. In this study we assessed the influence of the surgically-induced weight loss on some important hormonal abnormalities in the morbidly obese patients. Material and Methods: Fasting serum prolactin, insulin, cortisol and thyroid hormones: free thyroxin (FT4),free triiodothyronine...
Background: Dissatisfied with vertical banded gastroplasty in superobese patients, the authors adopted Salmon's gastroplasty/distal gastric bypass (DGBP) in 1995. When the Swedish adjustable gastric band (SAGB) became available in Switzerland, the authors started using that device instead of the gastroplasty because implanting a SAGB is much easier and gastric restriction with a SAGB is adjustable...
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